RESTORE: The Forgotten Forest

The Atlantic Forest once covered a swath of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It has been reduced to fragments by centuries of logging, agricultural expansion and city building. Watch how hundreds of organizations across three countries are succeeding in bringing back this forgotten forest. The Trinational Atlantic Forest Pact has been recognized as a World Restoration Flagship under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. These initiatives represent Earth’s frontiers of hope, as countries agreed to a new Global Biodiversity Framework. Under the agreement, countries promise to protect 30% of the planet’s lands and seas, and bringing back 20% from degradation.